An Every Day Reality Check

 For some reason this song was just 'there' when I woke, like a morning prayer...

...then a quote I read by Charles Spurgeon; "My dear friend, I am a poor sinner still 

and have to look to Christ every day as I did at the very first."

...inspired this post.

Every day the way we walk is riddled with pitfall and snare

We are prey to he who stalks and lures thought’s ever-ready stare

Then when thought has sought redemption, hands and feet respond, well-groomed

Through the minefields of temptation, where without Christ we are doomed

Every day the life we live will take us through new highs and lows

So much touch and taste to tease us and to keep us on our toes

The ‘evidence of things hoped for’ may seem like a fairy-tale

Yet Faith is our only lifeline to the Hand that will not fail

Every day is like a buffet groaning ‘neath the weight of grace

Wooing from a wake of takers, help for hungry human race

Love, so rich in mercy offers (even scoffers) tender care

Where we all have equal access to the steppingstones of prayer

Every day is like a foothold drawing us to Time’s demise

We brought nothing to this world and it all stays when body dies

Pray the Lord we lay up treasure better than earth’s heap of Stuff

Lest life’s leap of pain and pleasure in the end is not enough

© Janet Martin